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How to use repent in a sentence

20 example sentences · verb, adjective

Repent means to feel pain, sorrow, or regret for what one has done or omitted to do; the cause for repenting may be indicated with "of". Example: “Marry in haste, repent at leisure.”

Examples of repent by meaning

verbTo feel pain, sorrow, or regret for what one has done or omitted to do; the cause for repenting may be indicated with...

  • Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
  • If Aljunied decides to go that way (to vote for Workers' Party), well Aljunied has five years to live and repent.2011 April 30, Lee Kuan Yew, as quoted, “Aljunied voters will regret choosing WP: MM Leel”, in Yahoo News, archived from the original on 30...

verbTo be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to practice sin and to love.

  • Mad Prophet: Repent!2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3: Omega (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Gozu District
  • The Court shall, after sentencing an offender for any offence under section 221, 222, 223 or 224 and before execution of the punishment, order the offender to repent.2013, Hassanal Bolkiah, “Syariah Penal Code Order, 2013”, in Brunei Darussalem Government Gazette, page 1759

verbTo feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.

  • If Aljunied decides to go that way (to vote for the Workers' Party), well Aljunied has five years to live and repent.2011 April 30, Lee Kuan Yew, as quoted, “Aljunied voters will regret choosing WP: MM Lee”, in Yahoo News, archived from the original on 30...

verbTo be sorry for, to regret.

  • I repent my sins.

More sentences with repent

  • His dark soul was too incorrigible to repent, even at his execution.From the entry incorrigible
  • Act in haste, repent at leisure.From the entry in haste
  • Then with godly sorrow they remorse with a humble heart, and they repent.2020, Donald Werner, The Mark of the Beast or the Seal of Yahoveh God?, page 7. From the entry remorse
  • And sometimes plagues just miraculously disappeared after people realized their wrongdoings and repented.2020 February 24, “Family and Friends Treasure Falun Dafa Information in the Face of Novel Coronavirus Epidemic”, in Minghui. From the entry wrongdoing
  • In light of this, why shouldn't we repent of our incestophobia and dogophobia?2003, Dana Prescott, “Re: Watch The "Fundies" Fidget!”, in alt.religion.christian.episcopal (Usenet). From the entry incestophobia
  • His career, though scholastic, was varied, and had included going to the bad and repenting thereafter.1924 June 4, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, chapter VII, in A Passage to India, London: Edward Arnold & Co., →OCLC, part I (Mosque), page 59. From the entry go to the bad
  • Tweet in haste and repent at leisure.2024 February 7, Christian Wolmar, “LNER's crazy idea will price more people off the railway”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 44. From the entry tweet
  • Repent of all people-pleasings then pick your peers with pride.2018, Karen Kellock, Just Skip Dinner, page 96. From the entry people-pleasing
  • Therefore I call unto thee, repent before me.a. 1982, Bobbi Morris (?), quoted in Steven M. Tipton, Getting Saved from the Sixties: Moral Meaning in Conversion and Cultural Change…. From the entry thyselves
  • The head of the administration (the emperor in the past) would then issue an edict to sincerely repent and correct his wrongdoings.2020 March 24, Qing Zhu, Zhang Ming, “Amid Coronavirus Pandemic, China Faces Plague of Locusts”, in Minghui. From the entry pest
  • Now this is what no priest should do— Miscomfort any that live: If a man do penance and repent His sins he should forgive.1965 April, “The Legend of Venus”, in The Southern Review, volume 1, page 374. From the entry miscomfort
  • Nevertheless, you must know (if I am to speak honestly to you) that I do not repent me those dallyings in enchanted fields.1902, J. M. Barrie, The Little White Bird. From the entry honestly
  • The concept is that if one dies in this state (as a mushrik, an idolator, one who engages in and does not repent shirk), there is no forgiveness.2013, James R. White, What Every Christian Needs to Know About the Qur'an, Baker Books, →ISBN. From the entry shirk
  • 'e gived 'em up, an' repented somethin' horrid — there still bein' the buns to come — but Miss Soapy she gave 'im what- for-proper, she did!1912, Edward Burke, Bachelor's Buttons: The Candid Confessions of a Shy Bachelor, page 133. From the entry give someone what for

Meaning of repent

  1. verb To feel pain, sorrow, or regret for what one has done or omitted to do; the cause for repenting may be indicated with "of".
  2. verb To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to practice sin and to love.
  3. verb To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.

Full definition of repent

Questions about repent in a sentence

How do you use repent in a sentence?
Repent is used as a verb and adjective. For example: “Marry in haste, repent at leisure.”
What is a short sentence with repent?
“Mad Prophet: Repent!”
What does repent mean?
Repent means to feel pain, sorrow, or regret for what one has done or omitted to do; the cause for repenting may be indicated with "of".

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Adapted from Wiktionary: repent (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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